Biography - Mary Brennan Thorpe

Mary Brennan Thorpe brings a broad range of relevant experience in the worlds of entrepreneurship, finance, technology, and public policy to her role as vice president of agency relations for Wachovia Bank's Small Business Capital group, a position created specifically for her and which she has filled for the past seven years.

An accomplished public speaker and writer, Mary, whose function is to support SBA lending activities, lobby for the bank, analyze regulatory matters, and form liaisons between the bank and a broad variety of special interest groups and trade associations, came to the bank after serving as deputy chief of staff for the Small Business Committee of the US House of Representatives. She had also served as deputy administrator for business development at the US Small Business Administration, and as a Regional Administrator for that agency during the Bush '41' Administration.